Sadiq al-Ghariani

Sadiq al-Ghariani (8 December 1942-) was Grand Mufti of Libya from February 2012.

Biography
Sadiq al-Ghariani was born on 8 December 1942 in Tripoli, Italian Libya, and he graduated from Omar al-Mukhtar University in 1969 after studying sharia law, and he began teaching there the next year. In 1984, he gained a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and he became a Muslim cleric in Libya. In 2011, al-Ghariani declared a jihad against Muammar Gaddafi's regime, and in February 2012 the National Transitional Council (NTC) made him Grand Mufti. In August 2014, he congratulated the Islamist Libya Dawn coalition on taking over Tripoli from the Chamber of Deputies-led Tobruk government during the Second Libyan Civil War.